Srinivasan Sundara Rajan works at Gavs Technologies as a Chief Architect. His primary focus is enabling Agile Enterprises by facilitating the adoption of Every Thing As A Service Model with particular concentration on BpaaS (Business Process As A Service). Srinivasan is currently writing a series of articles on Indutry SaaS/BpaaS use cases which enterprises can adopt.All the views expressed are Srinivasan's independent analysis of industry and solutions and need not necessarily be of his current or past organizations. Srinivasan would like to thank every one who augmented his Architectural skills with Analytical ideas.
With cloud adoption becoming a de-facto option for small and medium enterprises, large enterprises are relatively slower in their adoption of cloud. The main reason is that large enterprises have a very complex existing IT setup and no single offering from various cloud providers has y...May. 11, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,179
With the enablement of new sources of data flow into the enterprise, it is time to look at the issues of Information Delivery 1.0 of the current enterprises.
Disparate Data Sources, most enterprises have grown multiple database platforms and even within a platform, multiple databases ...
This is a continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry is stressed for wider atte...
Data Mining helps organizations to discover new insights from the existing data, such that predictive techniques can be applied towards various business needs.
Data Virtualization is becoming part of Main stream enterprise data access strategy, mainly from the angle of it...
The concept of Enterprise 2.0 is quickly emerging. We are seeing exclusive conferences from industry leaders on the idea of Enterprise 2.0 to educate the traditional enterprise in adopting the latest collaboration and social business technologies.
Enterprise 2.0 is defined as extendin...
We are in a era where the consumer social networking in the form of face book and twitter are part of every one life. While there are several usages seen for the value proposition of these social networking tools in one’s personal life . However not much tools and t...
Analyzing massive amounts of unstructured content and extracting information out of them is necessary for many industry verticals and particularly important for academics. The following points highlight the growing needs for information delivery in the field of education and research.
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Service Oriented Architecture: Service Oriented Architecture is the first attempt in aligning the IT with the business and this is now almost a default architecture for all the new applications created in today's enterprise. Definition of SOA emphasizes the following, Service-Oriented ...
This is the continuation of my series of Articles on Industry SaaS . This term ‘Industry SaaS’ can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process As A Service). However the term ‘Industry SaaS’ meaning a Software As A Service meant for a specific industry need is st...
Purpose of analyzing Cobol for some of the future enterprise needs is not go back to old age. However the whole point of Cloud platform is about choice and freedom to enterprises. Which means that enterprises can take their own decision in this regard. However c...
As identified in my earlier article about Enterprise Search in Hybrid Cloud Computing Model, this particular use case of knowledge management is a natural fit for a cloud platform. However, the following aspects are aligned to the Cloud model.
Knowledge Management systems may have lar...
With the initial start in research work and in social network sites Hadoop is now becoming a big part of enterprise IT landscape. Recent announcement from Microsoft about embracing Hadoop as part of its Windows Azure High Performance Computing initiative and Orac...
This is the continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS . This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be used interchangeably with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning Software as a Service meant for a specific industry need is stressed for wide...
There should be an increased confidence for cloud consumers to utilize various SaaS offerings and BpaaS offerings in the cloud.
However, there are a few customers who are also interested in utilizing the COMPUTE (i.e., processing) power that is massively scalable on cloud while keepin...
This is the continuation of my series of Articles on Industry SaaS . This term ‘Industry SaaS’ can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process As A Service). However the term ‘Industry SaaS’ meaning a Software As A Service meant for a specific industry need is st...
This is the continuation of my series of articles on Industry SaaS. The term ‘Industry SaaS' can be used interchangeably with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS' meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry need needs more attention...
This is a continuation of my series of articles on industry SaaS. This term ‘Industry SaaS' can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS,' which means a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry need, is stressed for...
In my previous article on Need for BpaaS Consortium, I stressed the need for interoperability as a number one concern for the enterprises to adopt SaaS and in particular BpaaS. I pitched for the need for a generic body or a consortium that can act to address the interoperability concer...
As we started this series on SaaS, BpaaS offerings it is encouraging to see more players in the space. Chemical Inventory Management is chosen as a starting point. We request the enterprises to contact these providers directly and evaluate them as per their processes.
Another impo...
It is time for most heads of IT to think about the budgets for 2012. While the traditional portfolio wise allocation will still be continued in most enterprises, it is also time to think about prioritizing the budget allocation in new areas. As Cloud related investments ...
Independent research firm studies expects the global cloud computing market to reach $241 billion in 2020 compared to $40.7 in 2010. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offers more growth opportunity than any other segment in the still largely vague market for cloud computing services. SaaS ...
Currently Enterprises spend a fortune on Application Management so that there is no break on regular day to day operations, While Cloud brings lot of intangible benefits like increased business agility, more scope for innovation,the real selling point to the CxO at the beginn...
Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for Project Management that is driven using the Agile principles. Scrum methodology differs from document deliverable-centric, traditional waterfall methodology. Scrum also banks on real-world progress of the project. In Scrum, projects are ...
Multi-Tenant Software Architecture is the new architectural pattern in the industry, whereby a single instance and single code base of a software has been architected in such a way that it serves the needs of multiple customers aka tenants in a transparent way to the tenants.
This con...
Major IT companies acquiring analytics software and application providers has been the order of the day. We have seen the words ‘Big Data Analytics' being used in many solutions for the enterprise.
‘Big Data' is the general term used to represent massive amounts of unstructured data t...
With the information explosion, the petabyte enterprise needs search capabilities within the organization. Cloud provides a perfect platform towards that. The growth in unstructured content further iterates the need for Cloud platform. As evident from the above discussion, this could ...
In spite of the hype that a Cloud system or application will never fail, we are still seeing cases of cloud system failures. The recent ones being Lightining strikes in Dublin taking the Amazon, Microsoft Clouds down for a while. While this may cause some Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt on...
The biggest issue for the today's enterprises is the ways and means of measuring their computing / processing workloads that need to run their business and then work on the ways and means of optimizing the same.
Workload is the amount of work assigned to, or done by, a client, workgro...
As discussed in my previous article, Data Virtualization is the new enterprise data integration pattern for the petabyte enterprise that depends on Cloud for a dynamic allocation of resources to satisfy information needs. We have also seen several attributes of data virtualization that...
With the explosion of data , large enterprises have to rethink on the data abstraction and distribution strategies and may need to augment the traditional data integration patterns with data virtualization options.
Sql Server being the popular database and whose Cloud version Sql ...
Remember the older web applications and client server applications of the last decade, most enterprise business users are used to logging on to individual applications with their credentials or use single sing on mechanisms and they are presented with a Menu of individual screens...
The idea to industrialize Information Technology operations like an assembly line in a factory is not new. In software development, typically a software factory is about forming a specialized organizational structure that creates an assembly of subdivisions each of which specializes in...
Several industry predictions point to an explosion of tablets as the most favored productivity device for the enterprise and the consumer. The analysts have predicted a worldwide increase in usage for tablets.
The biggest advantages of tablets is that they are lightweight yet powerful...
Many of IT groups within the large enterprise including CXOs view multi tenant applications as the one that host disparate group of individuals or organizations. So the common misconception is that multi tenancy is all about resources shared by more than one organization. This lea...
Real benefits of the Cloud Computing model will go beyond the Dynamic infrastructure and on demand computing. For the enterprises saving 10% of the Server Cost is important but that is not their core need, rather adopting Common industry standards for service end points,...
Microsoft Office Access is one of the most popular thick client / client server application development tool that is prevalent in the enterprises today. Its simplicity to use, fitment for quick departmental applications and ability to be home grown by the business users without dep...
Much has been written about the Amazon failure that really put the enterprise adoption to Cloud a bit on the back foot. Amazon's outage was caused by a failure of the underlying storage - the Elastic Block Storage.
The Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a distributed and replicated storage ...
Amazon Cloud down event is a wake up call about how Cloud can be utilized, there is no automatic switch that ensures all the fault tolerant needed for the systems. However this has reinforced the strong fundamental principles with which applications needs to be built in ord...
Community Cloud is the cloud infrastructure that is shared by several organizations and supports a specific community that has shared concerns (e.g., mission, security requirements, policy, and compliance considerations). It may be managed by the organizations or a third party and may ...
Enterprises are looking for Cloud to move their Development and Testing activities which deviates the core goals of the enterprise towards setting up middle ware and configuring servers.
PaaS (Platform As A Service) grows into popularity mainly from the fact that Developers can c...
